"A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight."

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Source : Bess Wallace Truman, Harry S. Truman (2011). “Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919–1943”, p.11, Truman State University Press

Bess Truman

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“To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.”
“Songs are life in 80 words or less.”
“I want to see Haiti do better. We have the sun everywhere: that's a big asset. We have wonderful coasts, beautiful islands, mountains. Other countries that have that are known for it, but Haiti has been so focused inwards, on its problems.”

Source : "Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe of Haiti: 'We don’t want to be known as an NGO nation'". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.
“The promise of celebrity is a transcendental human state of existence. It's not real. We do know the fact that celebrities as mortal beings exist and if you are looking for love by being famous or being around the famous - ultimately that goes away.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.”
“The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a good one!”
“We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.”
“I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.”

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